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NYSE Group Inc. promoted Paul Adcock, who helped pioneer electronic equity trading in the 1990s, to oversee day-to-day operations of its U.S. stock exchanges, according to people familiar with the matter.

A technical error at CME Group Inc. prompted a four-hour trading halt at the world’s largest futures market, preventing buying and selling of contracts tied to major stock indexes, Treasuries, oil and gold on Sunday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced what the equities market had long expected – a test program to allow for a wider minimum tick size increment for small cap stocks. The program will last one year.

Ukraine’s Prime Minister said on Wednesday that Kiev knew of plans by Russia to halt gas flows this winter to Europe.

Despite huge share-price gains and signs of life in the aluminum market, Alcoa is still vulnerable.

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Despite all the factors that should be hurting gold, it’s dead flat for the month. Is that a bullish sign?

U.S. stocks opened flat on Wednesday as investors found few reasons to keep buying after a rally that has taken indexes to repeated records even as there was little seen on the horizon that could derail …